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The Furnished Holiday Let (FHL) rules, allow holiday lettings of properties that meet certain conditions to be treated as a trade for some specific tax purposes.
In order to qualify as a furnished holiday letting, the following criteria need to be met:
There is a special period of grace election which allows homeowners to treat a year as a qualifying year for the purposes of the furnished holiday let rules, where they genuinely intended to meet the occupancy threshold but were unable to do so subject to a number of qualifying conditions.
In any other cases, where the qualifying conditions are not met the normal property income rules apply. Trading losses from a furnished holiday lettings business can only be set off against qualifying future FHL profits.
Planning note
This is a good time to review your actual occupancy in the current tax year and if necessary, look for further bookings before the end of the current tax year. This should be done to ensure that you have met the minimum qualifying requirements and to benefit from the special FHL tax rules. If you need help crunching the numbers, please call.